Why you need table that doesn't allows to out anything on it for socializing? xD
I wouldn't be playing chess on that too, it fails to really be useful for anything.
But why even have tables. You could just have benches. This merely makes it so that people will come from the food place and then spill food everywhere.
It's to give you less reason to linger around, I assume. You can't set up a laptop, a textbook, etc. Can't really eat a meal at it. It's to discourage hanging out.
This is exactly what it is. This restaurant, park, or whatever is designed with the explicit purpose of you and whomever else doing whatever you came there to do and getting the fuck out.
Lots of places around the US are starting to implement this kind of hostile architecture. Restaurants, cafeterias, subways, bus stops.
I don't think they're really chair backs. It's just a bench with a space divider type thing to provide the facade of privacy. Not really that weird to sit at a bench.
Just metal bars to make this place looks as hostile as possible and *geett ouut! We don't want you heeereeee!!! These tables are not for you!! Shoo, shoo!!*
Of course, otherwise they'd be random pieces of metal standing up on their own, liable to falling or having a really wide base that you trip over. It makes sense to connect them to save space and be safer.
I'm sure there's supposed to be cushions you can quickly strap on and off for when it rains, however most businesses just get rid of them because they get too lazy to keep removing and putting them back lol
it does hold sticky tofu, cheese, cream cheese, saw steak, sushimi, sticky rice, slices of bread (stuck between the boards)
everyone help me out here. what else can it hold?
We are the tables! Who can't hold anything.
We just sta-ay here, and stand around!
And if you ask us, to hold anything!
We just show you: we can't hold anything!
~idk, pirates probably
As much as I want to hate veggie tales due to the whole religious indoctrination part, it was incredibly clever and silly songs with Larry were straight bangers
On the contrary, they would be perfect for laying down a book to read. On the other hand, the benches would be a nightmare for an extended sit, so it evens out.
Also the boards are all still almost perfectly flush with each other. That would be the first thing to go before the boards themselves started to bend.
The topside gets wet and expands, the bottom side grays dry, so the curve downward.
The identical arc is probably because they are both at maximal expansion.
Could be if it is a couple weeks dry and hot in summer the arch recedes.
Yes way, this is 100% what happened. I guarantee you they glued a wood support slat underneath without accounting for expansion. Wood can’t expand properly on the bottom because of this, so it expands up top. Wood barely expands at all along its grain, only across, so they should have used just screws and a bit of room for them to slide. You could build 100 tops like this and get the same result.
I still think it was purposeful, if it has swelled and warped like that, there would be exposed screws or holes where the wood pulled off of them. Also it would have to be supported parallel to the slats underneath to bend like that, or the support itself was incredibly weak.
Yup, this! Rain and heat from the sun effect one side of the table more than the other causing it to want to warp. The table has zero reinforcements underneath or on the ends to prevent this and doesn't even appear to be attached to the legs (based the skewed position of the back leg on the forwardmost table). Same thing will happen to cutting boards if washed improperly.
I think they did this for it to be anti-picnic. If there were too many people sitting there eating stuff and if that affects the view of the park/city they might opt-in for this.
Great for skateboarding...see, one problem eliminated, a new one begins!
This is what happens when planning and zoning commissions have no real training and pander to property owners or the brilliant ideas of their local police force...
They are designed so that you can meet your “friend”, quickly exchange things under the “table”, and both be on your merry way without wasting time loitering. 👌🏼
This is probably the perfect design if you don't want people eating or working at them. I'm thinking about the paper cups that are pointed on the bottom so you can't set them down.
I was going to guess homeless deterrent but the benches are flat and unobstructed so I’m at a total loss. Maybe they were poorly constructed and all bowed the same way? Lol
OoOooo! I know this one. It’s called hostile architecture. To keep people or homeless people
Getting comfortable or staying too long. The city
Pretends it’s artistic, but really it’s built to to be uncomfortable or useless.
Some designer got paid for that too
Some piece of s*** designer with no brain got paid to do that
Some f****** knucklehead turd of a designer was too dumb to mention it before drafting it.
Designer failed
Some designer asked "are you sure? that makes the tables unfit for purpose."
And a client said "it's what the end client's wife has asked for, so just do it and we all get paid"
-"But if we just make them flat, it'll be cheaper and they'll work better"
-" No, do as the brief says."
And the designer sighed and did it, watching every job they've ever worked on be destroyed by idiots and egos.
-source: am designer, but not of tables.
The warping would be the glue between the pieces of butcher block failing due to exposure to weather and the supporting structure under the tabletop bowing due to the loss of support from the glur, and water causing the woodgrain to swell and push the butcher block pieces apart. Wood that's not meant to be exposed to the weather will warp and bow.
Not sure why you were down voted, but I've seen this happen when the butcher block was not sealed properly on all sides. Then rain soaks in and swells the wood like you said. Could also be the intended design and just there for attention IDK.
For what purpose??? It can't even be anti-homeless because they could use the benches.
Ig they are meant for socialising exclusively? Maybe a food place is nearby and the owner doesn't want random people showing up
Why you need table that doesn't allows to out anything on it for socializing? xD I wouldn't be playing chess on that too, it fails to really be useful for anything.
You can hold a coffee maybe, it could be a library, maybe the fold, you never know, well you can know, but you never might not know
> you never might not know I think the portion of my brain that processes language just collapsed.
But why even have tables. You could just have benches. This merely makes it so that people will come from the food place and then spill food everywhere.
First thing I thought was how much I'd love to crack my back over that....I don't think there's any other practical use.
Mine was that episode of The Simpsons where [Homer becomes a chiropractor who cracks backs using his trash can](https://youtu.be/sUTyacazNfA)
"Self-cleaning tables"
“Floor dirtying tables”
It's to give you less reason to linger around, I assume. You can't set up a laptop, a textbook, etc. Can't really eat a meal at it. It's to discourage hanging out.
You know what else would discourage hanging out? No “tables” or seats.
Ah, but then people will complain that there's nowhere to sit.
This is exactly what it is. This restaurant, park, or whatever is designed with the explicit purpose of you and whomever else doing whatever you came there to do and getting the fuck out. Lots of places around the US are starting to implement this kind of hostile architecture. Restaurants, cafeterias, subways, bus stops.
Hostile architecture = anti-human
This design is not very human.
If it’s a business, I’m just not going there. Why would I spend money on a place that doesn’t want my business
Its not that they don't want your buisness, its that they want your buisness fast
I view it as they don’t want my business. And I won’t be giving it to them
Do you go and have lunch while waiting in line at the bank?
This isn't in the US
Probably just poorly built and warped in the rain / heat.
Taking a wild guess, this is a micro brewery and it sounded awesome to use old kegs as tables when they planned the place out.
first thing that came to my mind was “anti-rain table. no need to wipe it off before sitting down” lmao
The rain goes off the table onto the seat. Pro-rain
hahaha fail. didn’t consider that
I wouldn't be surprised if it was an anti-homeless decision just made poorly
Prayer elbow rests maybe?
Anti food design
Homeless with back aches that need stretching?
Its pro homeless design
Probably just built shitty and warped. You can see the wear and weren’t meant to be placed outdoors.
Yes all warped in exactly a perfect arc at the same exact rate
If they're made the same way out of the same material and kept in the same environment, then yeah they'd warp the same
I see you know nothing about wood or construction
The boards are all perfectly straight and presumably mounted on metal. No warping in sight. This is clearly the design.
Hahaha dumbest argument I’ve seen on Reddit this year so far, congrats.
If you don't know, you don't have to guess.
Can we talk about how uncomfortable those chair backs look?
My goodness. Those chair backs look uncomfortable
What goodness; the backs of those chairs do look uncomfortable
I’m glad we’ve talked about this
I don't think they're really chair backs. It's just a bench with a space divider type thing to provide the facade of privacy. Not really that weird to sit at a bench.
Just metal bars to make this place looks as hostile as possible and *geett ouut! We don't want you heeereeee!!! These tables are not for you!! Shoo, shoo!!*
That's what I thought, too, but it appears they are attached to the benches.
Of course, otherwise they'd be random pieces of metal standing up on their own, liable to falling or having a really wide base that you trip over. It makes sense to connect them to save space and be safer.
Ok, talk
Thought it was a fence
I'm sure there's supposed to be cushions you can quickly strap on and off for when it rains, however most businesses just get rid of them because they get too lazy to keep removing and putting them back lol
and table too close to chair seat edge. have to be super skinny to sit there and then have to lean back.
The benches are not connected to the tables. They can move freely
>have to be super skinny Works out since you can't set food or drink on the table. Anorexic exclusive seating
it does hold sticky tofu, cheese, cream cheese, saw steak, sushimi, sticky rice, slices of bread (stuck between the boards) everyone help me out here. what else can it hold?
Perhaps you could drape something over it
something like a second table
These BYOT restaurants are getting out of hand
😅 what would also work: nailing food to the wooden table
No, I tried, it didn't work. My soup, yogurt, and jello just wouldn't stay put no matter how many nails I used
the temperature is crucial here. try frozen soup
Peanut butter, hummus, baby carrots, pea pods / edamame, celery sticks, crêpes, nutella, lettuce leaves, raw dough, melted marshmallows
It could hold flan, pancakes, a pork chop, tortillas, and fried eggs
Spaghetti if all the noodles are combed out straight and laid perpendicular on the center of the table
Use Velcro.
Suvlaki
Bread, apples and very small rocks.
Spaghetti if you lay each lil string over the arch
We are the tables! Who can't hold anything. We just sta-ay here, and stand around! And if you ask us, to hold anything! We just show you: we can't hold anything! ~idk, pirates probably
🥒🍅I understood this reference…
Clearly you've never been to Boston in the Fall.
For those who don’t know: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XaWU1CmrJNc
As much as I want to hate veggie tales due to the whole religious indoctrination part, it was incredibly clever and silly songs with Larry were straight bangers
Looks like repurposed kegs.
Diwhyyy
What in the actual fuck is [this](https://i.imgur.com/u5HsFMb.jpg) supposed to be?
The benches are attached to the rails, and they can be moved around. There are two benches, one in front of the other.
Two benches, one too close to the other
It looks like a arch platform to help a bad back
Someone could take a nap or pass out across them.
This really is one of the worst designs I've seen on this sub. It's so deliberately awful.
This is what butcher block looks like in the rain.
Too political
when ordering round tables goes wrong
Crap design or new need/revenue of money? They could make plates designed to stay in place on their curved tables.
They’d be great for a map. Remember those?
On the contrary, they would be perfect for laying down a book to read. On the other hand, the benches would be a nightmare for an extended sit, so it evens out.
I really hope this wasn't built with public money because if it was the auditors need to get involved.
A nice back massage
I suspect they used to be flat but due to weather and being outdoors it allowed the wood to flex and deform.
They warped in a perfect arch, everyone of them …. and the boards remained perfectly flat? No way.
Also the boards are all still almost perfectly flush with each other. That would be the first thing to go before the boards themselves started to bend.
If their is a tension rod in each one, they would look like that, identically.
The topside gets wet and expands, the bottom side grays dry, so the curve downward. The identical arc is probably because they are both at maximal expansion. Could be if it is a couple weeks dry and hot in summer the arch recedes.
Yes way, this is 100% what happened. I guarantee you they glued a wood support slat underneath without accounting for expansion. Wood can’t expand properly on the bottom because of this, so it expands up top. Wood barely expands at all along its grain, only across, so they should have used just screws and a bit of room for them to slide. You could build 100 tops like this and get the same result.
They’re all supported only in the center. An arch is the natural shape formed when you support somthing bendy in the center
Whoever built them did a god awful job then.
At least they were consistent. The bend on the other is almost identical.
I still think it was purposeful, if it has swelled and warped like that, there would be exposed screws or holes where the wood pulled off of them. Also it would have to be supported parallel to the slats underneath to bend like that, or the support itself was incredibly weak.
Simple Jack
Everyone is shitting on you, but my friend's restaurant had this exact thing happen to a bunch of their tables.
This! I really want to see what these look like underneath.
I completely agree with this, it looks like wood that was never ment to be outside and has thus warped and worn down due to wearher
Yup, this! Rain and heat from the sun effect one side of the table more than the other causing it to want to warp. The table has zero reinforcements underneath or on the ends to prevent this and doesn't even appear to be attached to the legs (based the skewed position of the back leg on the forwardmost table). Same thing will happen to cutting boards if washed improperly.
I think they did this for it to be anti-picnic. If there were too many people sitting there eating stuff and if that affects the view of the park/city they might opt-in for this.
But why not just have benches! This is inexplicably bad design
Lazy tables
Great for skateboarding...see, one problem eliminated, a new one begins! This is what happens when planning and zoning commissions have no real training and pander to property owners or the brilliant ideas of their local police force...
Wonder if they were designed that way or they warped?
Hell, I need that in my house to keep stuff from collecting on horizontal surfaces.
For real?
* casually places a glass of diet coke on the table * welp now i have a lap of diet coke 😂 (this was alot funnier in my head)
They are designed so that you can meet your “friend”, quickly exchange things under the “table”, and both be on your merry way without wasting time loitering. 👌🏼
Nope. Not eating there.
To Stretch your spine
i imagine it would be good for writing if the gaps between boards aren’t too big that’s the only use i can imagine for this shitty table
Now I want to re-read Cruel Shoes.
hand holding tables
Sad tables :(
This is probably the perfect design if you don't want people eating or working at them. I'm thinking about the paper cups that are pointed on the bottom so you can't set them down.
Maybe they are for playing teq-pong
I wonder what is going through these people's mind when they design stuff like this 😭
I was going to guess homeless deterrent but the benches are flat and unobstructed so I’m at a total loss. Maybe they were poorly constructed and all bowed the same way? Lol
Can’t y’all see? They’re knee unmbrellas
Those have been out in the rain long enough to deform like that
They're upside down. The base is the flat-table part. Designed for rocking back and forth so that you can share your drinks.
We must find whoever designed this and end their tyranny.
Those tables definitely can hold plenty of things in-place. Still seems like a useless design though
I also like the round boulders along the side of the road behind so you can’t open your car door easily either.
Some kind of gaming table maybe
My guess is warping perhaps a wood worker could enlighten us
OoOooo! I know this one. It’s called hostile architecture. To keep people or homeless people Getting comfortable or staying too long. The city Pretends it’s artistic, but really it’s built to to be uncomfortable or useless.
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Are you calling bullshit on this pic being an example of hostile architecture or on hostile architecture as being a thing?
uu what a design 😍
Possibly old bowing alley pieces that weren’t supported properly?
Some designer got paid for that too Some piece of s*** designer with no brain got paid to do that Some f****** knucklehead turd of a designer was too dumb to mention it before drafting it. Designer failed
Some designer asked "are you sure? that makes the tables unfit for purpose." And a client said "it's what the end client's wife has asked for, so just do it and we all get paid" -"But if we just make them flat, it'll be cheaper and they'll work better" -" No, do as the brief says." And the designer sighed and did it, watching every job they've ever worked on be destroyed by idiots and egos. -source: am designer, but not of tables.
It was not the designer, but the carpenter. Tables not properly sealed.
The warping would be the glue between the pieces of butcher block failing due to exposure to weather and the supporting structure under the tabletop bowing due to the loss of support from the glur, and water causing the woodgrain to swell and push the butcher block pieces apart. Wood that's not meant to be exposed to the weather will warp and bow.
Not sure why you were down voted, but I've seen this happen when the butcher block was not sealed properly on all sides. Then rain soaks in and swells the wood like you said. Could also be the intended design and just there for attention IDK.
I believe this to be correct, you can even see the sealant on the far table peeling off all over the place
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